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An artistic reading, to celebrate twenty years since the death of Pino Sbalchiero, and thirty from the last publication of his masterpiece book ” C’era Una Volta un’Isola – Storie della Pellagra ed altri racconti”. The other Pino, Pino Costalunga , who was the companion of “artistic raids” of the “island” writer in his last years and always present and attentive interpreter of his stories, has decided to present himself to the public with a new reading-rereading of Sbalchiero’s wonderful stories.

Isola (which is Isola Vicentina and is the scene of the stories, together with the neighbouring places) becomes a magical place, a place of memory. It is a metaphor of a Veneto that perhaps no longer exists, disappeared like the Stella Boara of the story, which from dawn accompanied the farmer in his hard day made of sweat, fatigue, but also of simple joy and faith in a better future .

Therefore, the work of Pino and his fellow musicians – for years focused on the study of the popular and literary traditions of our Venetian area – wants to remember the star Pino Sbalchiero. Through his story, the memory of Sbalchiero will be kept alive, who was not and is certainly one of the most important and interesting Venetian authors of the 20th century and should not be forgotten!

It is a reading of various important authors, including the Venetian and never sufficiently appreciated Dino Buzzati with his story “Il corridoio del grande albergo”, followed by two stories by Italo Calvino (two adventures of Marcovaldo) to continue with a story by Stefano Benni, a chapter by Luigi Meneghello and a story by Vitaliano Trevisan, as well as some pages by Paolo Nori… to finish off with a hilarious and very rhythmic reading of Ur Malo from Pomo Pero by Meneghello. The theme of the stories is that of the surreal and the comic, better than … sneer … sneer of the author, in fact: they are all stories with a grotesque and funny atmosphere. In which we laugh, often a lot, but where the author’s search for laughter is always very intelligent, often cynical and evil.

Reading by Pino Costalunga from pages from Benni ,Buzzati, Calvino, Meneghello, Trevisan, Nori.